In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle… — Mark Twain Austria Copy Share Image
I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas… — Mark Twain Artist Copy Share Image
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. — Mark Twain Friendship Copy Share Image
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. — Mark Twain Cat Copy Share Image
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take… — Mark Twain Choices Copy Share Image
“Ljudska vrsta ima samo jedno zaista delotvorno oružje, a to je osmeh. Kada osmeh krene u napad ništa mu ne može odoleti.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows… — Mark Twain Body Copy Share Image
The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can… — Mark Twain Crime Copy Share Image
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a… — Mark Twain Creating Copy Share Image
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor;… — Mark Twain Dream Copy Share Image
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of… — Mark Twain America Copy Share Image
“I know now that all that glitters is not gold... However, I still go underrating men of gold, and glorifying men of… — Mark Twain Gold Copy Share Image
“Certainly. Of course. That’s part of it. And always coming to school or when we’re going home, you’re to walk with me,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business.… — Mark Twain Business Copy Share Image
“Susan bathing, surprised by the two old man. In the background the lapidation of the condemned." ("Lapidation" is good; it is much… — Mark Twain Old man Copy Share Image
Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity. — Mark Twain Asleep Copy Share Image
“It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for… — Mark Twain Conscience Copy Share Image
“He was a good enough sort of cretur, and hadn't no harm in him, and was just a genius, as the papers… — Mark Twain Good enough Copy Share Image
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly. — Mark Twain Acting Copy Share Image
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of… — Mark Twain Character Copy Share Image
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“All the memories in the world, good or bad, are not worth one slender hope for the future; and” — Mark Twain Hope Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a… — Mark Twain Idea Copy Share Image
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point. — Mark Twain Coercion Copy Share Image
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does". — Mark Twain Apology Copy Share Image
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed. — Mark Twain Books Copy Share Image
I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so."" — Mark Twain Anti religious Copy Share Image
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. — Mark Twain Prayer Copy Share Image
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." [ Mark Twain, a Biography ]” — Mark Twain Humor Copy Share Image
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain Behind closed doors Copy Share Image
Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you. — Mark Twain Family Copy Share Image
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear. — Mark Twain Country Copy Share Image
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination. — Mark Twain Beliefs Copy Share Image
It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the… — Mark Twain Bears Copy Share Image